What Ian Hickson thinks about management

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British software engineer; editor of the HTML specification at the WHATWG and a founder of Flutter, at Opera Software and then at Google from 2005 to 2023.

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1. 22 Nov 2023, 04:29 UTC

   Our readingGoogle's culture has decayed, and much of it stems from Sundar Pichai's lack of visionary leadership.

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   Their wordsMuch of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack of interest in maintaining the cultural norms of early Google. A symptom of this is the spreading contingent of inept middle management.

   ↗Reflecting on 18 years at Googleln.hixie.ch 4th of 5 in this piece